Michael Palin - Pole to Pole
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Actor: Michael PalinBrand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Michael Palin
Editor: Alex Richardson
Editor: David Thomas
Producer: Anne James
Producer: Clem Vallance
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 393 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- Michael's journey along the 30-degree east line of longitude encompasses 17 countries and both hemispheres -- from Greenland in the north to Kenya, South Africa and Chile in the south. Along the way communism collapses, apartheid ends, and a civil war is sparked as Michael meets Santa Claus and Lenin, goes shopping for camels in Omdurman and makes a final hectic dash to the South Pole.Running Time
DVD Reviews of Michael Palin - Pole to Pole
DVD Review: Adventure DVDs with Michael Palin
Summary: 5 Stars
If you missed the original series on the the Discovery channel, I would highly recommend this series for the entire family. Michael Palin is both informative and comical in his trip from the North Pole to the South Pole by any means available. He must circumvent civil wars, travel on numerous forms of transportation,interact we peoples of numerous counties, all while injecting his one of a kind humor, to make the series something for everyone.Young viewers will get to see many parts of the rest of the world,and how they live and cope, with every day life. For Adults they will see the same, plus (I think) enjoy his uncanny way if injecting his own humor, as he and his crew must overcome the many obstacles on his trip.DVD Review: pure poetry
Summary: 5 Stars
This is..in my opinion, Palin's best. It boasts-the same challenge--of getting from point A to B---but the twist of the harsh elements makes it pure genious. DVD Review: Pole to Pole
Summary: 5 Stars
A brilliant documentary, the interview with Michael Palin is worth watching after you watch the docoDVD Review: Amusing, somewhat educational, but could be cropped down
Summary: 2 Stars
Some fascinating cultural studies in this travel video, but it tends to be overly-long, and frequently gets bogged down in inane sequences such as Palin kicking back endless shots of illegal vodka in Russia, etc. The FULL frontal nudity at the mud bath could also have been clipped, as well as the nude men at the sauna. I don't know if Palin was aiming at Pythonesque humor with this, but it didn't work for me.
Something like 'Hemingways Travels' was far for fascinating, clean, and better edited. This one needed editing badly.
DVD Review: Palins travels
Summary: 5 Stars
"Pole to Pole" was the second of former Python Michael Palins great travels around the world after the groundbreaking series "Around the World in 80 days", and is equally exciting, thrilling, and entertaining.
This time the team travels along 30 degrees east longtitude from the North Pole through Scandinavia, Russia and the Soviet Union, Africa, (and forced by fate South America) to the South Pole, this being the route covering most land. As with 80 days, and his subsequent travels, "Pole to Pole" is filled with a great, warm spirit of enthusiasm, interest, and real, honest, good humour. Palin guides us, the viewers, through the many different countries and cultures with his usual witty and insightful commentary, and does what the travel industry calls 'the Palin effect' (that you want to go where Palin has gone) great honour.
Describing Palins travel programmes in one word is impossible, but if I had to choose or be beaten to death with a shoe, I'd describe them as inspiring. Truly, utterly, completely, magnificently, and really inspiring. And there cannot possibly be any other quality in a travel programme that is better than that.
The extra material on the DVDs are, as with all the other series, abundant. Lots of clips and segments that didn't make it to the final cut and a half hour interview with Michael Palin.
Highest possible recommendation.
Description of Michael Palin - Pole to Pole
Michael's journey along the 30-degree east line of longitude encompasses 17 countries and both hemispheres -- from Greenland in the north to Kenya, South Africa and Chile in the south. Along the way communism collapses, apartheid ends, and a civil war is sparked as Michael meets Santa Claus and Lenin, goes shopping for camels in Omdurman and makes a final hectic dash to the South Pole.Michael Palin, star of Monty Python's Flying Circus and A Fish Called Wanda, is in a comic race against time to get from the North Pole to the South Pole. Palin balks at nothing, tries just about anything, and always finds time for a spot of tea. En route Palin stars in a crayfish documentary in Novgorod, attends a baby-rolling ceremony at a Cypriot wedding, gets stuck in a Nile traffic jam, buys chicken in Wadi Halfa, goes camel shopping in Khartoum, and is prescribed tree bark by a Mpulugu witch doctor to get rid of his evil shadow. Even when things go according to plan, Palin travels in unusual ways--by dogsled on Spitsbergen, barge down the Dnieper, train roof across the Nubian desert, van through the Sudan, hot-air balloon over Kenya, and down Lake Tanganyika on the "African Queen." With curiosity, courage, and his standard aplomb, Palin plunges himself into the local cultures, beating himself with birch branches in a Finnish sauna and wallowing in mud in an Odessa sanatorium. Reminiscent of his Around the World in 80 Days, Palin once again brings some of the world's most inaccessible cities right into your home. An armchair traveler's delight, this collectors' edition of Pole to Pole is ideal for anyone interested in the funny world we live in. --Tara Chace
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